Word: narrow
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...effort to bring the Serbs back up to 49%, the Americans had tried to find some sparsely settled spots in Croat areas. That set off one of the worst tussles, over the so-called Posavina corridor, the narrow strip in the north, at the top of the map of Bosnia, that links Serb holdings in the northwest of the country with those in the east. Milosevic continued to seek a wider corridor. But Tudjman balked at handing over the parts held by Bosnian Croats as compensation for Serb losses elsewhere. This time Bill Clinton had to step in. He phoned...
...large part, is poverty and the distortions it visits on the human spirit. You'll never find investment bankers bickering on Rolonda, or the host of Gabrielle recommending therapy to sobbing professors. With few exceptions the guests are drawn from trailer parks and tenements, from bleak streets and narrow, crowded rooms. Listen long enough, and you hear references to unpaid bills, to welfare, to 12-hour workdays and double shifts. And this is the real shame of the talks: that they take lives bent out of shape by poverty and hold them up as entertaining exhibits. An announcement appearing between...
...shortly after it spread across the Internet. But the truth is, Doom made me sick. Not the blood and guts of it--Doom is no gorier than, say, a Sam Peckinpah movie. What nauseated me was the vertigo that came from peering over a gun barrel while twisting down narrow corridors...
Last week, Ireland voted to end its ban on divorce by a painfully narrow margin. This disappointing development may indicate that the irreligion and secularism so widely regarded as hallmarks of "modernity" may have infilitrated one of the few nations still committed to calling its citizens to Christian living. The issues that were raised during the debate over the divorce ban demonstrate why such a ban is a good idea even for a nation committed to secularism...
...belief that students, if left to themselves, are unable to properly distribute their courses over a wide variety of subject matter. In the least, such skepticism is clearly an indictment of the admissions process. Harvard students, as we have come to know them, are admitted not on narrow-minded attitudes but rather on their capacity to explore a diverse set of interests. It is ridiculous to assume that a student free to select his or her own courses would devote all 32 course requirements to one topic area...